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Maroua

Maroua is the capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon, stretching along the banks of the Ferngo and Kaliao Rivers, in the foothills of the Mandara Mountains.

Maroua
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The place

Maroua is the capital of the Far North Region of Cameroon, stretching along the banks of the Ferngo and Kaliao Rivers, in the foothills of the Mandara Mountains. The city had 201,371 inhabitants at the 2005 census, consisting mainly of the Fulbe/Fulani ethnic group.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Mont Maroua

    Hiking area.

  2. 02
    Place des Fetes de Maroua
  3. 03
    Village artisanal de Maroua

    A place with a collection of different artworks especially those of culture.

From Wikivoyage: Maroua, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

Maroua Sports Complex

From Wikivoyage: Maroua, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

  1. 01
    Restaurant le Noumou de Maroua

    Ave de Kakatare,.

  2. 02
    Le Noumou

    Daily 24 hr.

  3. 03
    Restaurant la Fourchette

    Sekandé.

  4. 04
    Mamma Bouba Restaurant

    N1,.

  5. 05
    Miam-Miam

From Wikivoyage: Maroua, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Maroua

Airports
Garoua (GOU), 174 km · N'Djamena (NDJ), 188 km · Maiduguri (MIU), 194 km
  • Garoua → Maroua
    175 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · $17–23
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  • N'Djamena → Maroua
    186 km · quickest by road, 4h 7m · $22–30
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  • Maiduguri → Maroua
    188 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · ₦12,450–16,600
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Maroua

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Maroua. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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  2. 02
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  5. 05
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